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Show GENERAL. Hevj- Flrf. iVew Orleans. 8. A 6re at Jefferson, Texas, on Monday niuht. iu An-iin street, destroyed a whole blx-k, including inclu-ding the buiidings oe-eupied by Grut-nar Grut-nar ci W'ayland, S. 11. Stone, II. G. Shuhan, Fauikner & Sehueik, Berge, Nichols i Co., J. P. & J. C. Alford The Democrat office is also destroyed. The loss is estimated at f jtKi.i.i'JU, insured in-sured for $i!00,OW. Tlie 3L(e Ralli-oad Horror. New York, S. Up to midnight, last night, no more belies were recovered, and nothing new in relation to the disaster dis-aster had transpired, Xriv York A'ews. .New eiik, 6. Tne. weather ha moderated. lr has been snowing since 4 a.m. Henr- Steinway, founder and head of the linn of Steinway oh Sons, died yesterday. Anxiety for tbe Sau Lom I n go Com liilii,u. Some surprise and anxiety are felt at the absence of news from the steamer steam-er 'J'emiw'r, whieli sailed three weeks ago witti the San Domingo commission. She was uot exj'eeted to be m ire than nine or tun days on the outward voyage, voy-age, and a day longer would have car ried a dispatch to Havana, the nearest cable stati'Ui. The weather since she sailed has been very rough. Hallroad Mallei.. Ttisrumoal thit fur several days part the officers and principal directors ofa largo westen railroad cimpany have beeu traveling over the entire mute of tbe Brie railroad, to e the condition of the road with a view of making an offer of an out and out purchase pur-chase or lease of the entire line. Colored Societies mil FenlHn. At a meeting lrtt eveninr, convoked by Geueral William M. Twitd, junr., to complete the arrangements for the demonstration to the Fen an exiles to morrow, the fact that a place in the pniccssion had been assigned to colored S'leieties that desired to participate in the afiair, was announced and a resolution a lopted heartily approving ap-proving of the action. Increaxe of Mercantile Fallnre. The. usual statement from the mercantile mer-cantile agency, of the number of failures fail-ures and amount of liabili'ios reported during the pa-t year, shows an inert in-ert ae ol -'i per cent in failures, a-eomparcd a-eomparcd uh 'i 'J, and S i p r o--ui an compared with f-s. In 'La the nunibr of failures was .7si.', and I lie amount ofliabiiiin-s J7.j.o.'i4 im. In 1-70 ib-nnrnhrr ib-nnrnhrr of failures was- :t,,',"il, an I. the liabilities $-1-1 ). F.iport LtqPftr.. Washington, f. The committee ol ways and ne ans have lx fore tln-m a biil to bii-ilral" the rxp-Tl of wlii-k-y and high wines, which is l--led uni with fav. r, and w-,',1 probab. y lx; re-I re-I ort'-d in smue f irm. The I ilh A mend in eal. Trini.-n. N J , I- -Th- f-w.r holism of the legila-iir ha- rnh- i tb loth aDicndmTit, by .".) to 1:4, F.ilrnlllt Fariierl'". Plh'a i-'l b'a. - An (iliti-ir -e- no of t i-r--re cr in m ' u i Iv '" , !rak-n. ha- h-n on, :ir-!,.-1. Tie-, auiount to ovr !l"'i". -''"d ani-Ti- ir.-a- wk - '-'all 1: .- The "Tinnisi'i" Kaiiilrrl ! ( ui i-o. . Tn . - T ' ' J r,.;U - a: f -.: 'S : . -n .ai. ili-.iMi w- r-".-:v. .) I r,--' n-i n ,.rr ' i' if" f - ' r 7 . wit', i ho Stn 1' .--T - a .r-r- I.-- i ' i' .!. a., tn b-ari. |